The American people…were like him: cheerful, optimistic, patriotic, inconsistent, and casually inattentive.
James Reston Quotes
The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.
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| Birth: | 3rd November, 1909 |
| Death: | 6th December, 1995 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Columnist, Editor, Journalist |
About
James Barrett Reston was born in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with The New York Times. He moved to the United States with his parents at the age of 10 and soon acquired the nickname Scotty. He studied at the University of Illinois. He joined the Associated Press in 1934. He moved to the London bureau of The New York Times in 1939. In subsequent years, he served as associate editor of the Times from 1964 to 1968, executive editor from 1968 to 1969, and vice president from 1969 to 1974. He wrote a nationally syndicated column from 1974 until 1987, when he became a senior columnist. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice. The first was in 1945, for his coverage of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference. He received the second award in 1957 for his national correspondence. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1986. He wrote several books include: Prelude to Victory, The Artillery of the Press, Sketches in the Sand, and Deadline(memoir).
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